with an RC radio meant customizing
every component. According to Brett,
disassembling the joystick and the
throttle and determining which buttons
and switches corresponded with what
wires so that they could be connected
to the correct inputs on the radio, was
painstaking.

“I used a Turnigy 9XR radio, and I
basically just pulled the motherboard
out of it because that was the only
component from it [that] I was actually
using,” he said. “The joystick is just a
standard computer joystick, which I’ve
hacked to work with the radio. All of the
buttons, and even the trim tabs, work to
control functions on the model.